Example sentences of "had [vb pp] too long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowell had had too long to think and his thoughts were tortuous . |
| 2 | Now the first step was from as I said earlier , I had stayed too long at I thought . |
| 3 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |
| 4 | She had spoken too long to pretend any longer to be asleep , and so she twisted and touched Rosa 's back , softly , with a hand on her shoulder to make her face her . |
| 5 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 6 | Perhaps they had taken too long to get together . |
| 7 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 8 | He had waited too long to make his constitutional views known . |